Its Official...Toyota FJ Cruiser is "Da BOMB"

"You want to tote kids, get groceries or wheel through the Starbucks lot, buy a Highlander or a RAV4, Toyota says, not an FJ."

"The FJ Cruiser is a marvelous antidote to today's assortment of SUV luxo-barges and car-based, wimpish, crossover pretenders. But unless you pretty much live off-road, that visibility problem is a deal-breaker."

"You want to tote kids, get groceries or wheel through the Starbucks lot, buy a Highlander or a RAV4, Toyota says, not an FJ."

"The FJ Cruiser is a marvelous antidote to today's assortment of SUV luxo-barges and car-based, wimpish, crossover pretenders. But unless you pretty much live off-road, that visibility problem is a deal-breaker."

That's true. If you want a hardcore offroader, this would work. But if all you do is commute and drive around town, you couldn't get value out of your vehicle. Better off getting the soft-utes/crossovers to go to starbucks in.
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Actually, I guess the Juicebox is okay for what it is, but it doesn't interest me in the least since I don't hunt deer or own a farm or ranch.

You know full well that the majority of buyers of these things will drive it to work and for groceries. Most of them will never be off pavement. That's the part of the whole SUV thing that escapes me. Why would you buy a vehicle that doesn't handle, can't be seen out of, and rides like the truck it is to do a car's job?
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Actually, I guess the Juicebox is okay for what it is, but it doesn't interest me in the least since I don't hunt deer or own a farm or ranch.

You know full well that the majority of buyers of these things will drive it to work and for groceries. Most of them will never be off pavement. That's the part of the whole SUV thing that escapes me. Why would you buy a vehicle that doesn't handle, can't be seen out of, and rides like the truck it is to do a car's job?

As my girlfriend would say: "Because it's cute!"
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The FJ cruzer proves that Japan should stay far away from the term Retro Styled Cars. compare the styleish powerfull yet sleak 2006 Mustang. to the ofashly ugly Hummer did it with a Minicooper looks of the FJ cruzer.
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The FJ Cruiser is a weird, thirsty, rather misshapen thing that is still sloppy seconds to the H3 which it tries to emulate. Not quite Honda Ridgeline levels of "ewwww," but certainly well up there on the scale.
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The FJ Cruiser is a weird, thirsty, rather misshapen thing that is still sloppy seconds to the H3 which it tries to emulate. Not quite Honda Ridgeline levels of "ewwww," but certainly well up there on the scale.

Sloppy seconds to the underpowered H3???? LOL.

Check this:

"The engine will delight you. The torque-rich V-6, shared with Toyota's Tacoma and Tundra pickups, moves FJ smoothly at low speed, common in urban traffic as it is off-road, and gives the rugged truck an unexpected, easygoing nature."

Car and Driver declared the H3 to be the superior off-roader in a recent comparo (which the Nissan Xterra won overall, if I recall). And that was with the OLD inline-5. The larger engine seems to be a match for the FJ Cruiser's mill, although I will concede that, unlike the Toyota, it doesn't require premium.
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"If you're wondering how the robot-like march of the world's politicians towards Copenhagen can possibly continue in the face of 'Climategate,' it's because Big Government, Big Business and Big Green doesn't give a **** about 'the science'" -Lorrie Goldstein